Dickens On Railways

Tony Williams (ed)

£14.99

Hardback

Humour > Non-Fiction

ISBN: 9781916045354

Published November 2020

224 pages

Description

In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society.

So he wrote about it – to a remarkable extent. He wrote a classic ghost story, ‘The Signalman’; in Dombey and Son about what is now the West Coast Main Line being carved through north London in great ravines.

He wrote satirical pieces about railway catering – even back then; about the wonder of express train travel to the Channel ports; travel pieces about exploring America by train – and about being personally involved in the notorious Staplehurst train crash in Kent.

Now, in the year of Dickens’ 150th anniversary, Tony Williams, a distinguished Dickens scholar, collects all these railway writings into a handsome little volume ideal for a long train journey…

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25 × 17 × 8 cm